MEXICO TRILOGY (Blu-ray)

A Tex-Mex tornado of fire and fury, writer-director Robert Rodriguezs astonishing Mexico Trilogy broke fresh new ground in American independent and action cinema, catapulting the filmmaker and his largely Hispanic cast and crew into the Hollywood stratosphere.Rodriguezs ingenious 1993 debut El Mariachi (infamously filmed for only $7000) sees a naive young musician entering a godforsaken border town and finding himself in the middle of a deadly case of mistaken identity. The major studio follow-up Desperado sees Antonio Banderas take up the mantle of the mysterious Mariachi, stalking the Mexican underworld with enough bullets up his sleeves for every bandito in his path. Finally, 2003s Once Upon a Time in Mexico sees Rodriguez use every cutting-edge technological innovation in his arsenal to bring the trilogys grand conclusion to the screen, as the Mariachi finds himself in the center of a bloody war for the soul of Mexico itself.Fun, fast and full of invention and inspiration, this dea